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La société civile prend de plus en plus consistance, à travers toute l'Afrique ! Evidemment, cela ne plait pas à tout le monde, mais ce n'est pas une raison pour baisser les bras, et nombre de citoyens en Afrique font montre de courage !Author: gerardw Tags: sociétécivile politique Burundi Afrique Posted: 05 December 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

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Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was recently stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests after repeated complaints that he abuses power and uses racial profiling to target Latinos in his community. Salvador Reza, U.S. Air Force veteran, community organizer and renowned immigrants rights activist, joins Laura for an exclusive interview on Arpaio's ongoing abuses.Dennis Gilman brought us video footage from an Arpaio raid and from protests in Arizona, where white supremacist groups showed up to support Arpaio's policies.The National Book Awards were announced this week; Colum McCann was honored for his fiction work Let the Great World Spin: A Novel , and T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt won the nonfiction prize.

The National Book Awards were announced this week; Colum McCann was honored for his fiction work Let the Great World Spin: A Novel , and T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt won the nonfiction prize. Dave Eggers, author of Laura's book of the year, Zeitoun , received this year's Literarian Award. In honor of the book awards, today on GRITtv we discuss other books we loved. From a biography of progressive icon Molly Ivins to Tracy Kidder's tale of a young medical student from Burundi, Jeannie Vanasco of Lapham's Quarterly, Julian Brookes of the Progressive Book Club and Sir Harold Evans, of The Week magazine and former president and publisher of Random House trade group, talk about the books that they think deserve more recognition. Which books impressed you this year? Leave them in comments or email to grittv@grittv.org and maybe we'll discuss them on the air.